You live in a country that is centered around social media, the cycle of boycotting/hating people will never end as long as there are people who can share their miserable opinions after a long day of their miserable lives.

North America is the most backwards fucked up region on this planet. We are okay with child slaves being worked to death to make fancy clothes for us, but when someone points out the obvious flaws in our law system and the people who enforce it, everyone gets their panties bunched up their cunts.

Y'all stupid ass dumb fucking idiot liberals let me set a couple things straight you racist pieces of shit...

1. "WHite people are mad at nike for endorsing a black athlete" HAHAHAH ARE YALL DUMB??? NIKE SUPPORTS MAINLY 99% BLACK ATHLETES LMAOOO... yall so fucking dumb and make shit about race. stupid liberal idiots

2. Colin is a fucking idiot. Hes a terrible QB and found an opportunity to somehow be back in the spotlight. I personally dont give a fuck if he stands or kneels... America is great because we have the freedom to do what we want... doesnt change the fact that hes a piece of shit race baiting Obama lebron james loving ass faggot.

3. Nike is playing all of you dumb fuck iberals... You fucking liberal democrats hate capitalism but now all of a sudden are supporting NIke by BUYING all their shit? HAHAHAHAHAHHA... YALL GETTING FUCKING PLAYED HARDDDD BODDDYYYYY... SO are you a liberal? or capitlist/repub??? WHICH ONE BRO... bECAUSE RIGHT NOW YALL IDIOTS BUYING NIKES SUPPORTING BEAUTIFUL CAPITLISM... Yall getting played like pawns, fools.

4. God bless my man Trump, draining the fucking swamp, yall dick riding liberal idiots can go fuck yourselves. "trump will never win" hhhahahahahaha... trump will start a war with north korea... lmaoooo!!! creates peace, something a president was never able to do.

SO all you liberal fucks go keep buying those nikes... played ass niggas.

yikes

Backs. Stop it. Get some help.

You're argument is awful. Kaepernick kneeled to protest during the anthem. Tebow kneeled to pray and it wasn't during the anthem. Apples and oranges...scum.

But also keep in mind...liberals lost their fucking minds when Tebow kneeled to pray.

Did you not read my posts either? Flaws in the system? You are supporting the allegation that there is a nationwide problem?

Give me a break.

While the percentage might be small, the problem is nationwide.

Texas
California
Florida
Minnesota
New York
Georgia
Washington
Missouri

and those are just some of the states with highly publicized incident.

Most cops are good. But I’m pretty sure every county or every city has a few bad apples. And until the system starts addressing those few bad apples instead of just protecting them, or at best, transferring them to another precinct,then yes - we have a nationwide flaw in our system.

For the most part this conversation has been pretty civil, but I think I’m gonna exit it none the less. Before it takes a turn for the worst.

I didn't read your posts Zmn, as I enjoy my brain cells and don't want them to be destroyed.

Your country is fucked, if you can't see that it's clear you are part of the problem. I like how you avoided the topic of you wearing children's blood without a care in the world, but once someone associated with the company does something you don't like you decide to burn all said apparel. Very American of you!

Do I need to do the math again? You even say yourself, "some of the states with highly publicized incident". 4 million police interactions a day throughout the nation and each of those states have a few highly publicized incidents. You can't say it is a nationwide problem or nationwide epidemic just because there is a single or a couple incidents in each state over a long period of time. Why are you so insistent on this? Even when facts don't back it up?

Additionally, many of these highly publicized incidents that involved police use of force against a minority (or anyone for that matter), were justified. They may have received national attention, but that doesn't mean they were not justified or that the police were in the wrong (see Michael Brown and Ferguson). Those that were not justified, the police rightfully were punished. The shooting of a fleeing unarmed black male in South Carolina by a police officer led to the police officer receiving 20 years in prison. GOOD. That is what should happen when a cop does something like that.

You also talk about bad apples in agencies. Yes, every agency has bad apples. But bad apples do not equal racist cops that want to kill minorities that pose no threat of serious bodily injury. The majority of bad apples are lazy cops that slack off, don't do their job well, don't work hard, etc. Not racist fucking murderers.

Lastly, you talk about the system protecting them. You do realize that every time an officer is involved in a shooting (this applies to every shooting in the country), at least one and sometimes two independent investigations take place in addition to the officer's agency conducting an investigation. In addition to that, every officer involved in a shooting that leads to the wounding or death of another human being, must be presented to a grand jury that is made up of non-law enforcement members of the community.

You say the system protects these cops. Civilian citizens with no law enforcement background decide whether or not to indict police officers and formally charge them with a crime. The prosecutor doesn't make that decision. The judge doesn't make that decision. The police chief doesn't make that decision. The sheriff doesn't make that decision. A JURY MAKES THAT DECISION.

Additionally, I have never heard of an officer found to have used unjustified deadly force that was simply transferred. That is a lie. But somehow, the system is protecting cops.

Again, while I will always be the first one in line supporting arresting and filing charges on cops who unjustifiably kill someone, I also understand there will never be perfection.

I encourage you to do ride-a-longs, I encourage you to join your local police department's citizen police academy, I encourage you to volunteer for your local police department, I encourage you to apply at your local police department, put on the uniform, serve your community, set the example, and fix the system you claim is a problem. Doing that might provide you all with some much needed perspective, which is incredibly lacking.

If you read all of my posts and forget everything I have said I at least want you to remember this.

In the real world, police officers have mere seconds and sometimes less, to make life and death decisions. Those decisions that were given seconds (again, sometimes less) to be made, will then be analyzed and watched and judged for months and sometimes even years by prosecutors, defense attorneys, families, media, friends, the public, juries, etc. And over those many months and years of analyzing, they will form their decision on whether it was right or wrong. A decision that the cop only had seconds to make.

Lastly, because I am still shook by these mentalities...none of you speak up when cops are killed. None of you speak up when police officers are assassinated. None of you speak up when groups of activists are marching the streets of NY City chanting, "What do we want? Dead cops". None of you speak up when Colin Kaepernick wear socks depicting cops as pigs (even when Emp says "Most cops are good"). None of you speak up when activists are marching the streets of St. Paul Minnesota chanting "Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon".

One of our deputies in Harris County in 2016 was pumping gas in his police car when a black male walked up behind him and shot him in the head. https://www.odmp.org/officer/22579-deputy-sheriff-darren-h-goforth

In 2014 two Las Vegas Metro officers were on their lunch break eating at CiCi's pizza. Two people walked up, ambushed them while they were sitting at the table and executed them. https://www.odmp.org/officer/22100-police-officer-alyn-ronnie-beck

In 2017 NYPD Detective Miosotis Familia was sitting in her narked command post vehicle, when a male walked up to her window and assassinated her by shooting her in the head through the window. https://www.odmp.org/officer/23305-detective-miosotis-p-familia

In 2016 Des Moines PD Sgt. Anthony Beminio and Officer Justin Martin of Urbandale Police Department were sitting in their patrol cars when a suspect walked up to their driver side window and assassinated them. https://www.odmp.org/officer/23015-sergeant-anthony-david-beminio

In 2016 Dallas PD is working security at a protest/march when a suspect, without provocation, ambushed and killed 5 police officers and wounded 12 more. https://www.odmp.org/officer/22895-police-officer-michael-leslie-krol

Again, where is the outrage? Crickets.


Obviously, the police are the problem.

If you can't even find it in yourself to read someones post with a differing opinion than your own...you are the problem. I also addressed every point brought up by someone else. If you read my posts, you would see that. You say you didn't read my posts but also accused me of avoiding issues. Which one is it? Did you not read my posts? Or am I avoiding talking about certain topics? I thought you were better than this.

Also, with your views and the language you are using....some game warden or conservation officer you will be.

I never knew pointing out oddities in the views of people would denote myself as as a bad officer. You feeling a little defensive there Zmn? I hope I didn't offend you with facts, because if I did... you probably aren't very nice to people who exercise their rights as you attempt to obstruct them.

Zmn do you really think anyone here wants cops dead? You are delusional

And do you expect anyone to read fucking 1400 word essays about how guilty your conscious is?

You know I didn't say that. I asked where the outrage was. Where is the condemning of that? I OBVIOUSLY said that rende come on.


EDIT BELOW:

I am editing this post to add this statement because your reply really bothered me. You know I did not say that. Yet, you call me delusional?

Are you serious? You literally said that I am wearing the blood of children without a care in the world. You accuse me of obstructing people's rights. And you say that you are just pointing out oddities? You are being extreme. You offered zero facts, you literally offered your uninformed opinion.

You being extreme will make you a bad officer. You not willing to listen to others' points of views will make you a bad officer. You willing to shut others down without hearing what they had to say, will make you a bad officer.

You were wearing children's blood without a care in the world though.. why aren't you outraged that children are forced to work slave labor to make your clothes? Why does it take someone in the public's eye doing something you don't support for you to become outraged at Nike? If you truly are against them and not just upset about being called out, you wouldn't have been wearing their apparel in the first place. It's clear from everyone else's point of view you're just upset about your profession being focused on for the laundry list of problems and injustices that have plagued your country for the past few decades.

And I'm not accusing you of anything, just the police as a whole. It is your job to find people breaking the law, and a good majority if not all of you obstruct rights to do so. It's just a head to the wicked beast that is the justice system. I'm willing to listen to opinions and thoughts, but I'm not going to read 1400 word essays that are just rehashing the same thing multiple times in an attempt to clear your conscious. I'm not here to pat you on the back and say everything is going to be okay.

I'm not extreme actually, I'm pretty mellow in fact.

I just find it hilariously ironic you are so upset about this dude kneeling through the anthem that you would go and burn all your Nike apparel, but don't seem to care about the same apparel being made by slaves with no rights at all.

I don't really think it is appropriate for you to accuse me of wearing the blood of children because I owned Nike apparel when you have a pic on your FB page dated May 13 wearing this Nike shirt. https://s7d9.scene7.com/is/image/JCPenney/DP0829201823595981C?hei=550&wid=550&op_usm=.4%2C.8%2C0%2C0&resmode=sharp2&op_sharpen=1

I am sick of the hypocrisy.

Also, I don't think you have the authority to tell me what I can and can't be upset about. As I previously stated, and I guess I am having to repeat this because you don't read, throwing away my Nike stuff (again, I threw it away, didn't burn it, you would know this if you read) is my own form of protest. Isn't that my right? Aren't you accusing me of not being nice to people exercising their rights? What the fuck are you doing to me?

Again, I am sick of the hypocrisy.

You say you are accusing the police as a whole, you are part of the problem. Again, if you read, you would see how accusing the police as a whole is not just wrong due to inaccuracy, but dangerous for the community you are claiming to be concerned about. But agian, you don't read. You also literally said "a good majority if not all of you (police) obstruct the rights to do so". Again, you are labeling 800,000 police officers as obstructors of rights based on a dozen or so incidents, that were highly publicized.

Again, that is extreme - almost radical.

You have also, twice now, said that I am typing essays in an attempt to clear my conscious. What are you even talking about? If anything, I am typing "essays" to clear the conscious of the many misinformed people posting in this thread that somehow think there is a nationwide epidemic of police officers on the hunt to kill innocent, unarmed minorities.

And lastly, if you actually read my posts you would know that I am not upset simply because someone knelt during the national anthem. You are being an ignorant simpleton.

You are better than this.